SINGAPORE – Waterway Point’s FairPrice Finest outlet now boasts a “reverse vending machine” to encourage recycling. Instead of spitting out cans or bottles of drinks, it will identify, sort, and collect used ones which are then sent to recycling plants in neighbouring countries. Read More
Tour operators in Krabi province have called on authorities concerned to quickly come up with effective measures to deal with household effluent which has been discharged into the sea around Ao Nang beach for a long time. Read More
The global community has solved significant environment problems, such as the ozone hole, but has fallen far short on others. When it come to plastic pollution, environmental researcher Malcolm David Hudson asks, which way will the world go? Read More
The about 1 million citizens in the southern city, also known as Mysore, are in the vanguard of a campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clean up the country and recycle rubbish into compost and electricity. The task is gargantuan, but the approach in Mysuru — combining the availability Read more…
Waste management in Tokelau has been identified as an urgent priority with increasing amounts of rubbish being disposed on the atolls. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed this month between Tokelau’s Economic Development, Natural Resources and Environment and the Pacific Recycle company in Apia, Samoa. The dumping of waste on Read more…
THE first recycling cabin in Shah Alam set up in Setia Alam less than a month ago is being misused. The cabin, placed in the Setia Alam Central Park carpark, off Jalan Setia Indah U13/10 was meant for recyclables such as paper and glass. However,bulk waste, non-recyclable items and recyclables Read more…
CORPORATE social responsibility (CSR) can be seen in many forms and for 3R Quest Sdn Bhd director Jerome Heah, it is about being able to lead the way for people to appreciate the environment better. Heah firmly believes that CSR is not just about writing cheques. His company, which offers Read more…
Instead of discarding your faulty gadgets, fix them yourself by attending the free KakiRepair workshops. As electronics become more complex, the answer to what to do with a busted piece of hardware is increasingly becoming “just toss it”.DIY advocate Johnson Lam reckons that planned obsolescence is a growing trend but that Read more…
PLASTIC bags have been getting a bad reputation lately. Last year, four states in Malaysia – Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Johor and Melaka – came up with a ruling to replace petroleum-based plastic bags with biodegradable alternatives. Despite many hiccups in the implementation of the new ruling both for residential and Read more…
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — With a goal to reduce marine debris and advance a circular economy, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company , has announced a joint effort with The Indonesian Aromatic & Plastic Olefin Industry Association (INAPLAS); Indonesia Read more…